“the country also has the greatest number of endangered species on the continent.” This could of course be a good thing, and a matter for congratulation. If all other country’s endangered species have been wiped out but Spain’s have not, for example . . .

I’ve never heard about so many expats returning to the UK, and the recent population figures did show a pretty large drop. Sure, it’s changing all the time, but generally it’s not a good time to be a working expat in Spain.

As for the weather, nobody knows. Look at the summer this year in Spain, nothing like the norm.

Fred, I think you are confusing “endangered” and “extinct” While at the same time proving PM´s point. If somethng is extinct it is gone, if it is endangered, there is still hope. A reason why Spain has the most endangered species and the most fragile system may be because these species Are still here, whilst they have already been wiped out in other places. And certainly, around here, the Spanish people are keen to keep and help them. A proposal to put a new motorway through a National Park, which would have disturbed the habitat of the Imperial Eagle and the Lynx (not so sure the Lynx is still out there, but they say it is, so who am I to argue?)was met with universal condemenation.

“The best English newspaper in southern Spain,” according to the Rough Guide. The Olive Press is the English language newspaper for Andalucia. Local news from Costa del Sol and inland Andalucia plus national news from around Spain. A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge and growing expatriate community in southern Spain – 200,000 copies distributed monthly (120,000 digitally) with an estimated readership, including the website, of more than 500,000 people a month.